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  1. “We also need support for the Regional Strategy for the Stabilization, Recovery and Resilience of the Boko Haram-affected Areas of the Lake Chad Basin Region in order to enable the eight affected states and provinces to implement their territorial action plans. We also need the support of the United Nations to mobilize resources for the project to improve the hydraulic capacity of Lake Chad and its tributaries to reduce flooding and evaporation. We are also asking for support to provide the necessary funding for the Lake Chad Development and Climate Resilience Action Plan.”

    2021-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8923 (2021) · source

  2. “The project involves desilting a number of sections of the lake and its tributaries, the removal of invasive weeds and embankment stabilization. It is the first phase of the inter-basin water transfer from the Congo basin to Lake Chad. I now turn to my prayers. The numerous challenges facing the Lake Chad basin and the Sahel region in general — environmental challenges, humanitarian challenges, security and development challenges — are beyond what the region can handle alone. There is an urgent need for the United Nations to step up its current efforts to mobilize the international community to redouble its support for the region, especially to strengthen support for the war against terrorism and other criminal activities by providing the necessary equipment to enable our troops to effectively prosecute the war.”

    2021-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8923 (2021) · source

  3. “We also have the Lake Chad Development and Climate Resilience Action Plan, which is supposed to span a period of 10 years, from 2016 to 2025, and is designed to turn the lake into a pool of regional rural development. The €916 million plan was presented at the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Paris in 2015, at which the World Bank pledged $300 million but no further contributions were received. The World Bank contribution is now being used for another project known as the Lake Chad Recovery and Development Project, at a cost of $170 million. In addition to that, we have a project to improve the hydraulic capacity of the lake and its tributaries, which is intended to increase the capacity of the lake and reduce the loss of water through evaporation and the damage caused by annual flooding along the Chari and Logone Rivers.”

    2021-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8923 (2021) · source

  4. “To mitigate the effects of climate change and address the root causes of the insurgency, the Lake Chad Basin Commission and its partners have been executing humanitarian and development projects aimed at restoring peoples’ means of livelihood, building their resilience and restoring the environment. One such project is an emergency development programme for vulnerable groups in the Lake Chad region, in particular young people and women. It comprises 118 microprojects to be executed within a period of 18 months, at an estimated cost of 37.5 billion CFA francs. It is expected to generate about 35 billion CFA francs in revenue and create at least 257,000 jobs.”

    2021-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8923 (2021) · source

  5. “Each pillar defines the broad scope of work to be undertaken and the strategic objectives to be achieved. As part of the implementation framework, the specific initiatives to be undertaken are compiled in territorial action plans by each of the Governors of the eight affected states and provinces. Meanwhile, pending the operationalization of the Regional Strategy, UNDP, in collaboration with the Lake Chad Basin Commission and the African Union, launched a regional stabilization facility on 18 July 2019 in Niamey. In addition to supporting the implementation of the Regional Strategy, the $100 million facility, which is now in its second phase, is intended to provide immediate stabilization for specific areas that have been cleared of Boko Haram control but in which communities remain vulnerable to continued infiltration and attack.”

    2021-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8923 (2021) · source

  6. “While kinetic operations aimed at neutralizing terrorists in the battlefield are of high priority, they are, however, insufficient in the medium and long terms to eliminate the threat of violent extremism in the basin. Military actions alone cannot solve the problem of terrorism. It is necessary to address the root causes of the problem. That is what is being done through the Regional Strategy for the Stabilization, Recovery and Resilience of the Boko Haram-affected Areas of the Lake Chad Basin Region and other development projects in the area. The Regional Strategy was produced by the Lake Chad Basin Commission with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the African Union. It is anchored on nine all- encompassing thematic pillars of intervention and 40 strategic objectives.”

    2021-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8923 (2021) · source

  7. “Boko Haram activities have caused massive displacements of people from their means of livelihood, thereby exacerbating existing water insecurity. The Multinational Joint Task Force, as currently constituted, was formally established at the Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission, which was held in Abuja on 11 June 2015, although the activities leading up to its creation had already been under way for a long time. It was established, as we are all aware, to create a safe and secure environment in the areas affected by terrorist activities, facilitate the implementation of stabilization programmes and facilitate humanitarian operations.”

    2021-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8923 (2021) · source

  8. “Among young people, who make up 60 per cent of the population of the Lake Chad basin, however, we have observed the emergence of a smuggling industry facilitated by the porous borders — drug trafficking, arms trafficking and human trafficking. We have also observed the vulnerability of young people to recruitment by terrorists and other criminals. Clashes between farmers and herders over the destruction of crops, owing to increased cattle movement in search of water, has also increased, as have cattle-rustling and, more recently, kidnapping for ransom and kidnapping by terrorists. It was against that background of general discontent that the Boko Haram ideology was introduced into the Lake Chad area and has remained there ever since.”

    2021-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8923 (2021) · source

  9. “The consequences are that we are experiencing general unemployment, endemic poverty among the people, youth restiveness and general hopelessness and anger, especially among young people. The people of the region are very resilient. They adopted various coping strategies, including migration from the dry northern basin to the wetter southern basin. That in itself created stress, as the southern part of the basin immediately became overpopulated. People also practiced a combination of several activities, combining fishing, livestock-rearing, agriculture and trade. They also devised ways of using the same farm for different purposes, depending on the season.”

    2021-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8923 (2021) · source

  10. “In 1963, the total surface area of the lake was 25,000 square kilometres. During the drought for the period from 1972 to 1975 it shrank to 10,700 square kilometres, while during the second drought, for the period from 1982 to 1985, it shrank to 1,410 square kilometres, or 5 per cent of its 1963 size. Since then, however, the volume of the lake has increased to approximately 10,000 square kilometres. Due to the high birth rate of about 3 per cent and migration from all over the Sahel region, the population of the Lake Chad basin increased from approximately 7 million in the early 1960s to 22 million in 1991, and to 50 million in 2015. The combination of the shrinking lake and the population explosion has led to reductions in the means of livelihood, farmlands, grazing lands and fishing waters, as well as trading activities in general.”

    2021-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8923 (2021) · source

  11. “Water balances for the period from 1954 to 1969 show that the total inflow into the lake was about 51.6 cubic kilometres a year, 99.4 per cent of which was lost almost entirely to evaporation. Similarly, during the period from 1988 to 2010, when the total inflow was reduced by half to 23.8 cubic kilometres a year, the loss to evaporation amounted to 99.1 per cent, or approximately 23.6 cubic kilometres a year. Lake Chad is vulnerable to increased evaporation associated with higher temperatures, owing to its large surface area relative to its volume. The lake started shrinking in the early 1960s, and that phenomenon is at the root of most of the challenges facing the region today, including youth restiveness, terrorism and clashes between farmers and herders. The following statistics illustrate the extent of the challenges.”

    2021-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8923 (2021) · source

  12. “Today, however, the effects of climate variability and change, population pressure and insecurity have conspired to bring about constant threats to food security in the basin. Modelling results published by the German Agency for International Cooperation in 2015 have forecast that, by the end of the century, there will be an increase in the mean annual temperature for the central and eastern Lake Chad basin; there will be a reduction in the available water resources by the end of the century; the rainy season will become shorter across the Lake Chad basin; areas that have sufficiently long- growing seasons, and therefore are today considered as tropical, will decrease in size and become fragmented or disappear; and climate conditions supporting the growth of tropical forests may no longer exist by the end of the century.”

    2021-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8923 (2021) · source

  13. “Mr. Nuhu: First of all, I thank the President of the Niger for the invitation extended to me to attend this very important meeting and the opportunity to speak. Let me start by saying that Lake Chad is a transboundary lake shared by Cameroon, Chad, the Niger and Nigeria. As of the 1960s, it was one of the biggest freshwater lakes in the world, with a surface area of 25,000 square kilometres. Before its current predicament, the basin was an exporter of agricultural products. Both food crops and cash crops are grown. Food crops include millet, sorghum, wheat, cocoyam, maize, cassava and sweet potato. Cash crops include cotton, rice, sesame and dates, which are generally produced in large-scale farming systems. Livestock transhumance, as well as fishing, is also in abundance in the Lake.”

    2021-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8923 (2021) · source